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Education, economic stability and social mobility, political reforms and democracy, media and free speech, legal protections and human rights movements.
Violence on the other hand, even when it topples oppressive systems, often leads to power vacuums, further repression and new forms of extremism.
Surely the powerful can't say no to any of that.
If your argument here is that violence is the answer, then please, tell me how much violence does it take for you to change your core beliefs? Because for me the answer is that no amount is enough. At best it'll just make me hide them. Now, because I know it doesn't work on me I thus don't expect it to work on other people either.
I... Don't think the violence needs to change minds.
Why not, kill enough protestors and eventually the rest won't want to protest any more. See? Changing hearts and minds, one machinegun spray at a time. Like the Marines in Afghanistan.
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